Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - June 04, 2025


Ep 1200 ｜ Exposing the Innocence Project： Fake Evidence, Dark Funding & Protecting Monsters


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1 hour and 7 minutes

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9,998

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658

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00:00:00.000 A man who was released from prison because of the efforts of the Innocence Project has now been arrested for the possession of child sex abuse material.
00:00:12.160 This is just the most recent example of criminals who have been advocated for by the Innocence Project who have gone on to re-offend.
00:00:22.080 And actually, the Innocence Project has a very long history of defending those who, beyond a reasonable doubt, have committed heinous crimes, including the rape and the murder of children.
00:00:36.200 And today, we are exposing the Innocence Project, who is actually funding them, the ideology behind them, the truth behind some of the most prominent cases that they have been involved in, including a recent Texas case of a man named Robert Robertson.
00:00:54.360 He narrowly escaped execution last year. Now his fate hangs in the balance.
00:00:59.120 The media and the Innocence Project would have you believe that he is being discriminated against, and he is actually an innocent, grieving father.
00:01:07.120 But what do the facts actually say?
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00:01:46.880 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable.
00:01:49.000 Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far.
00:01:52.240 Today, we are finally revealing research that we have done on an organization called the Innocence Project.
00:02:00.640 And I'll just ask you at the top of this episode to please pray for me, pray for our team, pray for this episode,
00:02:09.280 because there are some very powerful people in politics that don't want this information getting out,
00:02:18.120 who have associated themselves with the Innocence Project and would much rather you not know the details that we are about to reveal to you today.
00:02:29.500 But if you are a Christian, you care about justice.
00:02:33.780 You care that justice is carried out in a way that is fair, in a way that is truthful.
00:02:39.580 And any organization or individual that is trying to inhibit justice, we need to stand in their way.
00:02:49.140 As Christians, we should be on the front lines of justice, especially on behalf of the most vulnerable.
00:02:57.060 And that means justly punishing wrongdoers.
00:03:00.960 Today, we'll go through a few stories of people who have been defended by the Innocence Project and those associated with them.
00:03:12.040 We will give you the facts that have not been revealed to you, and we will compare those facts to the narrative that is being spun by the Innocence Project and others.
00:03:23.840 We will talk about how this organization persuades the public and then how they use public distress and public outrage to then influence and even manipulate and bully those in charge
00:03:38.300 to make sure that justice is not carried out for those who have committed crimes.
00:03:44.420 All right, let's start with a recent story, one that you may know or maybe you didn't hear about this.
00:03:51.680 There was a lot going on at this point last year, so maybe you weren't aware of this person named Robert Robertson.
00:04:01.380 Last year, you may have heard of him.
00:04:04.220 Robert Robertson was in the news.
00:04:06.040 You may have heard that he was an innocent man on death row.
00:04:10.080 Dr. Phil interviewed him, and in Dr. Phil's promotion of the interview, he said that Robertson is on death row for, quote, a crime he did not commit.
00:04:22.060 Prominent figures like Brett Weinstein, who rose to fame as a progressive professor.
00:04:27.120 I've had him on my show.
00:04:28.580 He fought against left-wing groupthink.
00:04:30.960 He questioned the COVID vaccine.
00:04:33.140 Last year, he publicly, on X, called on the Texas legislature and Governor Abbott to stop Robertson's execution.
00:04:42.160 He was set to be executed on October 17, 2024, but the cries of the public were effective.
00:04:51.240 There was a judge who granted a temporary order stopping his execution.
00:04:55.520 So now, Robertson's fate hangs in the balance.
00:05:00.120 According to the Innocence Project, an organization that purports to get innocent people off death row, Robert Robertson is an autistic man who was wrongly convicted in the death of his two-year-old daughter, Nikki, in 2002.
00:05:15.440 The case against Robert Robertson, the Innocence Project claims, was built on assumptions.
00:05:22.260 When Nikki, who had been sick with a fever, fell from her bed in 2002 and later became unresponsive, Robert took her to the hospital.
00:05:31.940 That is how the Innocence Project describes what happened over 20 years ago.
00:05:35.700 Robert was unemotional about his child's injuries, the hospital noted, but the Innocence Project asserts this is because of his autism.
00:05:46.420 Doctors claimed that this was a case of shaken baby syndrome, the Innocence Project says, and that Robert was responsible.
00:05:54.220 But Robertson's defenders say that these doctors ignored the clear evidence that Nikki's death was the result of natural causes, that her pneumonia and the accidental fall from her bed actually caused her death.
00:06:08.040 And a grieving father, the narrative goes, was labeled a monster because he didn't grieve the way that they thought he should, that the hospital and his family members thought he should.
00:06:18.620 But those on Robertson's side say that he was a quiet man, that he had a kind heart.
00:06:24.760 He was often compared to Forrest Gump for his sincerity, his childlike innocence.
00:06:30.800 But the Innocence Project says the state didn't care about these things.
00:06:35.740 He was arrested.
00:06:36.800 He was prosecuted.
00:06:38.060 He was sentenced to death cruelly.
00:06:40.120 And for over 20 years, Robert has lived in this tiny cell on Texas death row, awaiting execution for a crime they say never happened.
00:06:52.080 Many scientists, doctors, and even faith leaders now say they believe that Robert was wrongfully convicted.
00:07:00.620 Even the Autism Society of America and the Autism Society of Texas have pleaded for mercy, urging the state to recognize the injustice here of putting an autistic man on death row for a crime that apparently never occurred.
00:07:18.360 Last year, Robert narrowly escaped his execution.
00:07:22.540 And this year, he may or may not.
00:07:25.200 For now, he waits.
00:07:26.780 He waits for the courts to recognize what so many already say they see, that he is not a murderer.
00:07:35.660 This is the story the Innocence Project would have you believe.
00:07:39.540 But the question is, the really only question that matters is, is it true?
00:07:46.900 Is it true?
00:07:49.320 God gives us a picture of what justice looks like, especially when it comes to trials,
00:07:54.980 especially when it comes to law giving.
00:07:58.260 Leviticus 19.15, God says,
00:08:00.680 You shall do no injustice in court.
00:08:03.840 You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great.
00:08:07.660 But in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
00:08:11.200 In truth, in integrity, in rightness, in correctness, you judge your neighbor.
00:08:16.140 We've talked about this many times, but at least four characteristics of God's justice that we see in his law giving to Israel in the Old Testament
00:08:25.700 that gives us a model for what justice should look like today, even though we are not in ancient Israel.
00:08:31.560 We don't have to take all of the laws of ancient Israel and put them here in America today.
00:08:36.000 But it would be wise of us to look to the God who created justice to tell us what justice should look like.
00:08:41.880 And we see that justice is at least four things.
00:08:45.000 It is true.
00:08:46.300 It is impartial.
00:08:47.800 It is proportional.
00:08:49.400 And it is direct.
00:08:50.900 So it is based on truth.
00:08:52.720 It doesn't defer to the poor.
00:08:54.680 It doesn't defer to the great.
00:08:56.780 It directly deals with the person who is involved in this case.
00:09:01.580 You're not punishing someone's cousin for what they did.
00:09:06.420 It is proportional.
00:09:08.920 The punishment should fit the crime.
00:09:11.180 And what is relevant here is that facts matter.
00:09:16.700 And to know the facts, we have to dig beyond the headlines.
00:09:20.440 And as we'll explain later, we have to dig beyond what the Innocence Project says.
00:09:24.660 We have to look at the court documents.
00:09:27.100 This is sourced from the judicial opinion from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in the case Roberson v. The State, 2007,
00:09:35.720 and Roberson v. Stevenson, 2015, as well as a statement from the Office of the Attorney General.
00:09:43.820 And the statement from the Office of Attorney General is based on the facts in these cases.
00:09:51.000 Now, we're not talking about the opinion of the Attorney General.
00:09:55.180 We are only looking at what these court cases actually say.
00:10:00.540 We are looking at witness testimony.
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00:11:42.960 Nikki Curtis was the daughter of Robert Robertson and his girlfriend, Teddy Cox.
00:11:50.960 The week of Nikki's death, her mother, Teddy, was in the hospital for a hysterectomy.
00:11:57.000 Nikki's grandparents babysat her because Cox didn't want to leave her daughter alone with Robertson.
00:12:04.700 She was very troubled by his behavior.
00:12:06.600 She didn't trust him.
00:12:07.940 So she left her daughter alone with her parents.
00:12:10.620 However, when Nikki's grandmother got sick, Robertson was then told that he needed to come pick up his daughter,
00:12:18.060 which made him very angry, according to Teddy Cox's testimony in court.
00:12:23.880 This was the first time, according to Teddy, Nikki's mom and his ex, Robert's ex,
00:12:31.620 this was the first time that Robert was ever left alone with Nikki as her sole caretaker.
00:12:37.840 The next morning, Teddy, her mom, was discharged from the hospital and she called Robert to ask for a ride from the hospital.
00:12:47.580 He responded reportedly that he probably needed to come to the hospital anyway because their daughter, Nikki, wasn't breathing.
00:12:56.300 Well, obviously, her mother, Teddy, was freaked out by this and begged him over the phone to take their daughter to the hospital as quickly as possible.
00:13:05.380 And there are some questions within that.
00:13:09.580 How long would it have taken Robertson to actually take Nikki to the hospital if Teddy hadn't called to ask him for a ride?
00:13:19.600 Teddy testified that Robertson wasn't upset at all about the situation.
00:13:24.600 He didn't seem flustered.
00:13:25.980 He didn't seem like he was in a hurry.
00:13:28.020 He didn't even pull up to the front door of the hospital.
00:13:31.500 Instead, he took the time to find a parking spot.
00:13:34.340 There was a nurse there that day, Kelly Gerganis, and I think I'm pronouncing her last name correctly.
00:13:41.780 She testified in court that she was working in the ER in Palestine, Texas, when Robertson came in and that he was pushing Teddy in a wheelchair.
00:13:52.460 And so Teddy, remember, she had just had surgery.
00:13:55.420 And Teddy had Nikki, their daughter, in her lap covered in a blanket, according to this nurse's testimony.
00:14:02.360 And by the time that she arrived at the ER in Palestine, Texas, Nikki was not breathing.
00:14:10.860 She was limp.
00:14:12.080 According to the testimony of this nurse, her skin had turned blue.
00:14:16.460 Nurse Gerganis testified that in all of her years of nursing, she had never seen anyone appear that deep shade of blue, not even a drowning victim.
00:14:26.380 A CT scan showed severe trauma to Nikki's brain.
00:14:30.920 The doctors that were on call that day concluded that she needed to be transported to a different hospital to Children's Medical Center in Dallas for further care.
00:14:40.780 And that is where she ultimately passed away.
00:14:43.220 Now, the Innocence Project asserts that Nikki's death was because she had pneumonia and had also been given some medications such as codeine.
00:14:54.080 And that was standard care at the time if someone had that kind of illness.
00:14:59.760 But that kind of medication is no longer used in children today.
00:15:03.400 So the Innocence Project is saying, see, that was dangerous.
00:15:06.380 They shouldn't have given her codeine for her pneumonia.
00:15:08.960 And that probably caused her death.
00:15:11.600 Yet neither an illness nor the medications that she was given can explain the extensive injuries that Nikki sustained.
00:15:21.280 Board-certified pediatrician Dr. Janet Squires, who examined Nikki before she died, attributed her injuries to massive head trauma and concluded that she had been a victim of abuse.
00:15:33.640 And when questioned at the hospital, her dad, Robert, told a nurse that Nikki's injuries were from falling from a bed.
00:15:43.320 She immediately, that nurse immediately had staff call the police as she knew, she deemed in that moment that it was impossible for such severe injuries to result from a minor fall.
00:15:54.280 And she knew that he was lying.
00:15:55.800 There was another emergency room nurse.
00:15:58.100 Her name was Andrea Sims.
00:15:59.860 She observed a handprint on Nikki's face and noted that the back of her head, this is disturbing.
00:16:06.640 I'm about to say a lot of disturbing things.
00:16:09.140 But if this little girl endured these things, then we have to be tough enough to describe them because it's important to know the details here that the Innocence Project doesn't want you to know.
00:16:17.720 So this nurse, Nurse Sims, says that when she felt the back of Nikki's skull, that it was mushy, that it was bruised and it felt like mush.
00:16:27.580 Dr. John Ross, the pediatrician who examined Nikki, testified about this significant bruising.
00:16:34.240 He said that she had a large subdural hematoma.
00:16:37.680 So that is where the blood collects between the brain and its outer covering.
00:16:42.140 And that her brain swelling, this child's brain swelling was so severe that her brain had shifted from the right to the left.
00:16:50.380 He asserted that these injuries were intentionally inflicted, that there was no way it could have happened from falling from a bed.
00:16:57.120 I mean, a lot of us have children out there.
00:16:59.140 We've seen our child jump from the couch to the floor.
00:17:01.940 We've seen them fall, trip, hit their head.
00:17:05.100 And yeah, they might have a little goose sag.
00:17:07.320 Like, I remember when I was in kindergarten, I fell hard on the concrete.
00:17:11.560 I tripped and I fell on this concrete step and I had a huge goose sag right there.
00:17:16.520 But did I have a hematoma?
00:17:19.480 Did my brain shift from left to right?
00:17:23.000 No, because God created our skulls to protect our brains.
00:17:26.040 And it takes a lot of trauma, especially intentional trauma, to inflict that kind of injury on the brain.
00:17:33.560 Also, Dr. Thomas Kondoyan, the ER physician that was also there when Nikki was brought in, noted bruising on Nikki's jaw and described something called an uncal herniation.
00:17:47.060 And you medical people out there, if I'm mispronouncing these words, I apologize.
00:17:51.220 And that is where part of the brain gets pushed out of position.
00:17:54.300 So what we just described, her brain shifting from one side to the other.
00:17:57.660 And that is a precursor to brain death.
00:18:00.080 He said that it was, quote, basically impossible for such trauma to result from falling out of bed.
00:18:07.480 There was a forensic pathologist, Dr. Jill Urban, who conducted Nikki's autopsy.
00:18:12.700 She concluded that Nikki died from, quote, blunt force head injuries.
00:18:17.740 Now, the Innocence Project claims that Roberson was convicted based on a debunked theory of shaken baby syndrome.
00:18:24.920 But this is not true.
00:18:27.240 That's not what happened.
00:18:28.720 And this is a straw man argument.
00:18:30.740 Although Roberson did have a history of shaking Nikki, Teddy's family testified that he would shake Nikki by the arms and had in one instance thrown her off the bed.
00:18:40.920 OK, that was previous to what happened the week of her death.
00:18:45.420 Shaken baby syndrome was mentioned during the court hearings.
00:18:49.440 But the various medical professionals who actually examined her after she died testified that Nikki didn't die from shaken baby syndrome, that she died from head trauma.
00:19:00.820 In 2016, Dr. Urban reiterated that Nikki, quote, died as a result of blunt force head injuries in response to the Innocence Project's attempts to claim that Roberson's convictions or conviction was based on debunked science.
00:19:16.760 She also noted, Dr. Urban noted that a fall from the bed would cause a, quote, single impact rather than the multiple discrete impact sites found on Nikki's head.
00:19:27.760 Another false claim by the Innocence Project is that Roberson has, quote, maintained his innocence since being accused.
00:19:35.140 But that's not true. At Anderson County Jail, Teddy Cox, Teddy Cox, so the Nikki's mom, said that she asked Roberson directly if he had killed Nikki.
00:19:47.320 She says that his response was that if he did do it, he didn't remember, but he might have, quote, snapped.
00:19:54.440 Roberson also told Dr. Kelly Goodness, one of the defense's own witnesses, that he did not remember what happened, but then later confessed that he had lost his temper and began abusing Nikki.
00:20:07.480 At the original trial, even Roberson's own defense team, OK, his own defense team at the original trial did not argue that he didn't kill Nikki.
00:20:17.780 Instead, they sought to reduce his culpability, citing his low IQ, 85, his poor impulse control, impaired decision making, essentially conceding that Roberson fabricated the story of the fall from the bed.
00:20:33.040 Their strategy was actually to argue that Roberson lacked the mental capacity to form intent and so pushed for a lesser homicide charge than capital murder.
00:20:43.260 So this challenge is another Innocence Project claim that Roberson was convicted largely due to his autism and that this was some sort of discrimination and bias against people with special needs.
00:20:53.900 But his mental state was thoroughly examined at the time and central actually to his defense.
00:21:00.880 Yet he was not diagnosed with autism.
00:21:03.360 He wasn't diagnosed with autism until 15 years later.
00:21:07.000 So this raises doubts about the validity of the diagnosis.
00:21:11.560 And I just want to say not not everyone who is awkward or who doesn't show emotion has autism.
00:21:18.620 And by the way, even if you have some sort of autism diagnosis, that doesn't mean that you're not culpable of beating a child to death.
00:21:26.040 The Innocence Project has gone to great lengths to portray Roberson as a gentle, childlike man akin to Forrest Gump to suggest that he could not have committed such a brutal crime.
00:21:38.900 But his criminal record and family members tell a different story.
00:21:43.420 And by the way, that whole portrayal as Forrest Gump, it might be closer to Lenny from Of Mice and Men.
00:21:50.820 He was also childlike, but he murdered someone.
00:21:53.740 Although I don't even think that you could say that Roberson is in that kind of category.
00:21:58.760 This seems a lot more intentional and malicious.
00:22:01.740 Roberson had multiple felony convictions.
00:22:04.980 So he was with it enough to commit multiple felonies, including burglary and theft.
00:22:10.580 He had been arrested at least 17 times before Nikki's murder.
00:22:15.300 He also had a history of violence and threats toward Nikki.
00:22:19.000 Rachel Cox, Teddy's 10-year-old daughter, testified that Roberson had a really bad temper and had even threatened to kill Nikki at one point.
00:22:28.900 Roberson's own mother said at one time, quote,
00:22:31.360 quote, one of these days he's going to kill her and it's going to be too late for anyone to do anything about it.
00:22:38.880 Huh.
00:22:39.820 In the end, the prosecution only sent the murder or only sent the charge of, quote, murder of a child under six years old to the jury.
00:22:47.620 And this was enough to give Roberson the death penalty.
00:22:51.120 So that's what they went with.
00:22:52.260 But originally they had included that Roberson had murdered Nikki, quote,
00:22:58.040 in the course of committing or attempting to commit the offense of aggravated sexual assaults.
00:23:05.320 There remains significant evidence that Roberson also sexually assaulted Nikki.
00:23:10.680 And we will get into the disturbing details of that in a second.
00:23:14.000 And like, just take a breather for a second, because I will have to describe what they found on Nikki's body that proves this.
00:23:22.800 I just want you to know the kind of person that Innocence Project is protecting and that people tried to defend, especially last year.
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00:25:04.200 When Nikki arrived at the hospital, there was a nurse who examined the child and she noted injuries consistent with not just abuse, but sexual assault.
00:25:14.280 Namely, this is so hard to imagine and so difficult to say, but again, if she suffered it, we have to talk about it.
00:25:23.820 Namely, there were three tears to this child's anus and abnormal rectal laxity, which means she was raped.
00:25:32.560 In addition, Robertson admitted to another cellmate that he had sexually assaulted his daughter.
00:25:37.420 Robertson told him of, quote, putting his penis in the baby's mouth and rubbing his penis against her vagina.
00:25:45.140 Robertson's history of abuse was not confined to Nikki.
00:25:48.860 His ex-wife, Della Gray, also testified that once she left him in a room with her two-year-old daughter, Victoria, for 30 minutes,
00:25:56.620 and Victoria was screaming and upset and had, quote, a hickey on her neck when Robertson finally let her out of the room.
00:26:04.820 She also recounted leaving their young son alone with Robertson, maybe not the best decision here, only to return and find his face covered in bruises.
00:26:16.240 And as in Nikki's case, Robertson explained that the injuries were the result of the child, quote, falling off the bed.
00:26:23.820 Huh.
00:26:24.640 Gray herself was abused by Robertson.
00:26:26.920 He strangled her with a coat hanger reportedly, broke her nose with a punch while she was pregnant,
00:26:32.160 beat her with a shovel, allegedly.
00:26:36.360 Further evidence of Robertson's guilt was that he repeatedly changed his story.
00:26:41.120 He first claimed that Nikki fell off the bed and then that she hit her head on the table,
00:26:45.780 later asserting that he didn't know what happened.
00:26:49.020 She was simply clumsy.
00:26:50.460 She must have somehow injured herself.
00:26:53.280 At one point, he even suggested that she hit her head on the brick floor,
00:26:57.500 although the bedroom had only carpet.
00:27:01.640 Robert Robertson was ultimately convicted based on extensive medical, forensic, and testimonial evidence.
00:27:08.920 Nikki's injuries could not be explained by a simple fall or illness.
00:27:14.260 Multiple doctors, nurses, and forensic experts concluded that she was the victim of intentional violent abuse.
00:27:21.240 Robertson's personal testimony, along with testimony from Nikki's family, portrayed him as a man capable of horrific violence.
00:27:30.780 The Innocence Project's efforts to recast the case overlook these facts, and more importantly,
00:27:37.360 they shift the focus away from the true victim, which is Nikki.
00:27:41.300 This is the worst and the most deadly form of toxic empathy.
00:27:45.120 We have a whole chapter in toxic empathy dedicated to how social justice cherry-picks facts,
00:27:52.860 purports and upholds one victim, purported victim, to ignore the person on the other side of the equation,
00:28:02.780 to ignore the real victim.
00:28:04.780 That is exactly what seems to be happening here.
00:28:07.860 The Innocence Project's narrative, which is amplified by this empathetic media,
00:28:13.820 including state legislators, to intervene in the judicial process.
00:28:19.000 Just as Robertson was scheduled for execution on October 2024,
00:28:24.180 these legislators issued a subpoena requiring his testimony before a House committee after his execution date.
00:28:31.020 90 minutes before Robertson was put to death,
00:28:33.760 a Travis County District Court judge issued a temporary stay of execution.
00:28:38.880 The stay was quickly overturned by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals,
00:28:42.560 but legislators have attempted the subpoena tactic again.
00:28:46.540 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton blocked Robertson from testifying, however,
00:28:51.720 refusing to cooperate with what he viewed as a blatant attempt to undermine the justice system,
00:28:56.420 and I completely agree with the Attorney General on that.
00:28:59.360 As of February 2025, Robertson and the Innocence Project are again asking Texas to overturn his conviction entirely,
00:29:07.260 claiming that the verdict was based on debunked science of shaken baby syndrome.
00:29:12.240 Again, that's not what the verdict was based on.
00:29:15.360 While the Innocence Project garners these kind of celebrity endorsements for Robertson,
00:29:20.960 they disregard the voices of the person who was most affected,
00:29:25.260 the actual victim, which is this baby girl who is now dead.
00:29:29.600 Her brother, Nikki's brother, whose name is Matthew Bowman,
00:29:32.840 he has consistently called for Robertson's execution.
00:29:36.480 He actually traveled to witness the execution in October 24,
00:29:41.160 only for it to be delayed.
00:29:43.780 Bowman remains firm in his stance, stating that this case is about the baby.
00:29:48.980 Here's top one.
00:29:50.160 It seems like everybody has forgotten Nikki and that if we don't speak,
00:29:53.760 you know, they're going to make it all about him.
00:29:55.800 And people have lost that this is about that two-year-old baby that didn't get to live her life.
00:30:00.060 He's absolutely right about that.
00:30:02.960 Absolutely right.
00:30:04.020 So the question is, why would the Innocence Project support someone who looks like a monster,
00:30:11.400 Robertson?
00:30:12.460 And why do so many, even in right-wing and libertarian circles, buy these phony narratives?
00:30:19.840 For example, we have Brett Weinstein, who I mentioned earlier.
00:30:23.580 He put out this post on X, 1230 p.m., October 17th, the day that Robert Robertson was supposed
00:30:30.520 to be executed.
00:30:32.680 He posted, please look into the case of Robert Robertson.
00:30:36.000 I'll provide links in the replies.
00:30:37.740 Please don't wait.
00:30:38.600 He is scheduled to die tonight in Texas.
00:30:40.660 It is a clear, he says, miscarriage of justice with pharma corruption.
00:30:45.120 As a central element of the story, he is referring to this child taking codeine.
00:30:50.560 As a central element of the story of how he was falsely convicted, we can stop this if
00:30:55.440 we act now.
00:30:57.620 The Texas state legislature has subpoenaed Robertson to testify on Monday.
00:31:02.460 The subpoena does not alone have the power to halt the execution, but sufficient public
00:31:06.280 pressure can save him.
00:31:07.740 This is in our power.
00:31:09.160 We have only hours, okay?
00:31:12.480 This post has 1.8 million views.
00:31:15.020 And then we also have RFK, who is currently the head of the CDC.
00:31:20.480 Obviously, we like a lot of things that he's doing, but he reposted Brett Weinstein with
00:31:24.200 his own commentary saying, Robert Robertson is scheduled to die tonight in Texas at 6 p.m.
00:31:29.600 Central time.
00:31:30.260 His execution would compound an already serious miscarriage of justice.
00:31:35.080 Governor Abbott needs to step in.
00:31:37.420 Sometimes I just wonder if these people are even looking into the cases that they are talking
00:31:44.040 about, just this week, there's another man that the Innocence Project championed who was
00:31:49.220 actually arrested again after he was released from prison.
00:31:52.860 I saw this story first reported by journalist Andy Ngo.
00:31:56.420 His name is Marvin Lee Much.
00:31:58.220 He's now 68.
00:31:59.280 He was convicted in 1975 at 18 years old for murdering 13-year-old Cassie Riley in Union
00:32:05.920 City, California.
00:32:07.400 Cassie was found dead in 1974 in a creek bed, beaten and drowned.
00:32:11.560 Trial evidence included Much's sister saying that he came home late, muddy, washed his clothes
00:32:18.000 right away.
00:32:18.940 A police officer saw Much near the crime scene, Much admitted being with Cassie, but he just
00:32:24.740 denied killing her.
00:32:26.220 Much served 41 years in prison.
00:32:29.100 Before the California Innocence Project took an interest in his case and helped him get out
00:32:34.680 of state prison via a parole program, he went on to become a prison reform activist, insisting
00:32:40.380 that he was wrongly convicted for murdering Cassie Riley.
00:32:44.320 And actually, PBS recommended his documentary to show to teachers, for teachers to show their
00:32:51.860 students about the injustice of the criminal system.
00:32:55.220 And so he was released on parole in 2016 after the Innocence Project insisted that he had
00:33:02.380 been wrongly charged and convicted for this murder, citing all different kinds of technicalities
00:33:09.040 in a very similar way that they did for Robert Robertson.
00:33:13.960 And so he was released on parole February 2016.
00:33:16.840 And then last week, on May 22, 2025, Much was arrested in California for possessing child
00:33:25.480 sex abuse material, drugs, and having a loaded firearm.
00:33:30.100 And he is held at Solano County Jail on $300,000 bond.
00:33:36.780 And he's facing more felony charges.
00:33:39.040 The Innocence Project has not made a statement.
00:33:43.240 So why?
00:33:45.000 That's the question.
00:33:45.920 Why?
00:33:46.320 Why does the Innocence Project choose people that are proven beyond a reasonable doubt to
00:33:54.040 be guilty of heinous crimes?
00:33:56.460 What is their end goal?
00:33:57.960 Who is behind the Innocence Project?
00:34:01.140 What really is going on?
00:34:04.240 And how are they getting so many celebrities into their web?
00:34:08.880 To understand this organization's corrupt motivations, its success in deceiving the public, we need
00:34:18.100 to look at its background and the ideological underpinnings and what I see as very dishonest
00:34:25.520 and manipulative legal tactics.
00:34:27.980 So the Innocence Project presents itself as a champion of justice, working to exonerate the wrongly
00:34:34.300 convicted and reform the legal system.
00:34:36.360 And that sounds virtuous.
00:34:38.540 But behind that virtuous mission statement lies an army of activists recruited to manipulate
00:34:46.380 public sentiment, exploit emotional impulses, and push an extremely left-wing radical agenda.
00:34:53.100 At its core, the Innocence Project thrives on what we call toxic empathy, the kind that preys
00:34:59.040 upon people's fear of appearing unkind and unempathetic.
00:35:03.840 And the Innocence Project doesn't just seek justice, or it doesn't at all seek justice for the wrongly
00:35:10.400 convicted.
00:35:10.920 They actually redefine justice entirely.
00:35:14.280 So their premise is that convicted killers are actually innocent and that the real villain
00:35:20.600 is the justice system itself.
00:35:23.040 That's not the premise that they tell you, but that is the underlying premise.
00:35:27.760 In this kind of warped narrative, in this backwards worldview, they kind of cast the court.
00:35:33.780 And law enforcement as the oppressors and criminals, like Robert Robertson, as a martyr or a victim.
00:35:41.620 So the organization's roots, if you look at their roots, that alone reveals who they really are.
00:35:49.340 Founded in 1992 by Barry Sheck and Peter Neufeld, both members of O.J. Simpson's infamous dream team,
00:35:57.700 the Innocence Project was built on the same legal gamesmanship that helped a guilty man walk free.
00:36:05.980 In 1995, Sheck and Neufeld secured Simpson's acquittal despite overwhelming evidence of his guilt.
00:36:13.220 In a later civil trial, Simpson was found liable for the wrongful deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman,
00:36:20.400 even jurors from the original trial admitted they knew that he was guilty, but voted, quote,
00:36:26.780 not guilty as a form of racial payback.
00:36:30.280 So this is the early history of the Innocence Project that foreshadowed the ongoing obsession
00:36:38.020 with race and racial vengeance and what is now deemed propagandistically as anti-racism.
00:36:46.460 And just like with the O.J. case, the Innocence Project actually specializes in freeing people
00:36:52.160 who are guilty, often because of legal technicalities.
00:36:57.860 That is how they seek to exonerate these people.
00:37:00.820 And their mission extends beyond exoneration.
00:37:04.560 One of the Innocence Project's goals is abolishing the death penalty.
00:37:09.460 That's really what this is about.
00:37:11.920 But they don't lead with this goal.
00:37:13.760 Instead, they use these kind of misleading cases of supposed wrongful convictions to erode
00:37:20.660 public confidence in capital punishment in general.
00:37:24.620 And their strategy is really simple.
00:37:26.580 They convince people that an innocent man or woman is being executed.
00:37:31.940 And eventually, opposition to the death penalty follows because it makes it seem like all of
00:37:37.380 these people who didn't commit any crimes are being unjustly executed.
00:37:41.760 And the results speak for themselves.
00:37:43.300 They're very effective at this.
00:37:45.220 Around the time the Innocence Project was founded, American support for the death penalty
00:37:49.620 peaked at 80 percent.
00:37:51.700 Today, the number has dropped to 53 percent.
00:37:54.400 So only a slight majority believe that the death penalty for capital murder, even when someone
00:37:59.440 is convicted beyond a reasonable doubt, is justified.
00:38:02.640 In this way, as long as the public believes that their clients, that the Innocence Project's
00:38:09.220 clients are innocent, the Innocence Project advances its agenda, even when executions proceed.
00:38:16.300 The execution of someone perceived as wrongly convicted is actually, for them, even more powerful
00:38:22.340 in swaying public opinion against the death penalty than exoneration.
00:38:26.180 It reinforces this idea that our system is fatally flawed, that we just need to get rid of the death
00:38:31.580 penalty altogether, and that really our criminal justice system isn't one to be trusted, that
00:38:37.280 we're putting too many people in jail and that too many people are placed in jail for the wrong
00:38:41.480 reasons.
00:38:41.960 And it shouldn't be surprising that when you look at the politics of the Innocence Project, you would
00:38:48.260 think that it would only win over progressives, people who believe that, you know, ACAB, and they believe
00:38:55.560 that our criminal justice system is inherently discriminatory, that it discriminates against
00:39:00.300 black people, that it discriminates against immigrants, that it discriminates with people diagnosed with
00:39:05.380 special needs like autism.
00:39:07.340 You would think that it would only appeal to people who have that kind of worldview, who are really against
00:39:14.160 Western civilization's creation of a justice system in the first place, but that's not true.
00:39:19.640 They have actually won allies on the right.
00:39:22.260 If you look at the Libertarian Cato Institute, the Cato Institute awarded the Innocence Project with the
00:39:27.260 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty in 2021, proving that this kind of manipulative messaging
00:39:33.960 actually is effective across the political spectrum.
00:39:39.080 But make no mistake, the Innocence Project's loyalties lie firmly with the left.
00:39:46.100 Most recently, they praised Biden's commuting of 37 death sentences, saying that this prevented the
00:39:53.380 executions of innocent people.
00:39:56.580 They also attacked Trump for the executions that took place during his first term, noting that, quote,
00:40:02.900 a majority of those executed were people of color.
00:40:07.100 OK, that's a really good thing for us to look at for a second.
00:40:11.840 Like, let's just pause on that, because giving a little bit of truth that is supposed to lead
00:40:18.600 people to a particular conclusion while leaving out the other relevant facts is exactly what
00:40:27.080 Innocence Project does.
00:40:28.220 The fact that a majority of people being executed were people of color does not mean inherently that the
00:40:34.320 death penalty is unjust or that those people shouldn't have been sent to death row.
00:40:39.820 Like, let's ask ourselves, what crimes did they commit?
00:40:42.600 It's really irrelevant what the color of their skin is.
00:40:45.460 But if you can just say, well, a majority of those people were black, they know that's enough for a lot of
00:40:51.340 people to think, well, it must be racist.
00:40:52.920 It must be unfair, even if there's no evidence proving that.
00:40:56.860 They linked a fact sheet that was titled, quote, the Trump executions, a race to kill on their website.
00:41:03.020 So trying to say that Trump is just eager to execute people who happen to be black.
00:41:07.460 The Innocence Project is also backed by the usual left-wing billionaires and left-wing political donors.
00:41:14.660 They receive millions, no surprise, from George Soros' Open Society Foundation and radical leftist
00:41:21.560 philanthropist Mackenzie Scott, that is Jeff Bezos' ex-wife.
00:41:27.960 Worse still, they siphon off taxpayer dollars.
00:41:30.580 Millions of our taxpayer dollars flow to the Innocence Project and all of their affiliated
00:41:35.680 organizations through the U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance.
00:41:41.260 This is an office within the Department of Justice.
00:41:43.800 I would love Pam Bondi to look at this and ensure that our tax dollars are not funding
00:41:49.140 stopping the execution of convicted murders.
00:41:53.580 If there were any doubt about the Innocence Project's ideological bent, they're not just some
00:41:58.900 apolitical organization that's trying to exonerate innocent people.
00:42:03.280 You just need to look at its leadership.
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00:43:34.520 So here are here's the leadership of the Innocence Project.
00:43:45.180 Executive Director Christina Allison Swarns.
00:43:48.580 She previously worked for the NAACP, which is a very progressive political organization.
00:43:54.080 She famously helped overturn the death sentence of convicted cop killer and former Black Panther
00:43:59.260 Mumia Abu-Jamal.
00:44:01.860 His guilt was never in question, by the way.
00:44:06.520 Swarns simply ensured he shouldn't.
00:44:09.480 He wouldn't face execution.
00:44:12.000 He remains in prison for life.
00:44:14.820 The organization's board of directors reads like a who's who of left-wing activism.
00:44:21.840 Sociologist Alondra Nelson served in the Biden administration.
00:44:26.260 She wrote books, Admiring the Black Panthers, outlining how DNA testing can help get slave
00:44:32.700 reparations to African-Americans.
00:44:35.640 We've got Andrew Tannenbaum, a Democrat computer scientist.
00:44:40.580 He runs ElectoralVote.com, which falsely predicted that Trump would lose in 2016 and 2024.
00:44:47.060 We've got former police chief Cedric Alexander, an Obama advisor who also writes for CNN.
00:44:54.520 We've got law professor Ikau Inyanka, who penned an infamous New York Times op-ed in which he
00:45:01.100 declared that he wouldn't allow his children to befriend white people.
00:45:05.300 All right.
00:45:05.680 Then we've got Yusuf Salam, one of the Central Park Five who campaigned for Kamala Harris at
00:45:11.660 the Democrat National Convention.
00:45:13.960 Since the founding of the National Innocence Project organization, activists have created
00:45:20.520 numerous regional chapters operating at the state and the local levels.
00:45:25.820 These independent but related groups employ similar strategies to challenge convictions and
00:45:32.580 share the same ideological motivations as the national organization.
00:45:37.820 Ultimately, the Innocence Project is not about justice.
00:45:41.780 It's about partisanship.
00:45:43.380 It is about undermining law and order, rewriting history, changing the facts, advancing a radical
00:45:50.500 leftist, often racialized agenda under the guise of compassion and empathy and justice.
00:45:56.880 So they turn criminals into victims and the justice system into the oppressor.
00:46:01.540 They distort reality and erode the very foundation of accountability and lawfulness in America.
00:46:07.160 If justice matters, then the truth about the Innocence Project must matter.
00:46:13.000 It must be exposed.
00:46:14.880 So let's look at their formula because they have a repeatable formula that they use to hoist
00:46:22.260 up a particular person that they cast as a victim and get them off of death row.
00:46:28.440 The Innocence Project follows this formula to change public opinion.
00:46:32.160 And their approach relies on manipulating public perception, exploiting legal technicalities rather
00:46:39.240 than proving actual innocence.
00:46:42.000 You'll notice that the Innocence Project chooses cases that have a narrative of some
00:46:46.420 kind of minority victimhood.
00:46:48.860 So it's an immigrant.
00:46:49.960 It's someone with supposed special needs.
00:46:52.200 It's someone who is black.
00:46:53.640 They do this to push this idea that minorities are under continual persecution because of systemic
00:46:59.420 bias.
00:46:59.920 And they know that a lot of people in America just assume that.
00:47:03.020 They don't have to convince people of it.
00:47:04.860 In these narratives, it's not just that a mistake was made, but rather all of these cases
00:47:08.540 are evidence of racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia.
00:47:12.820 The list goes on.
00:47:14.040 In the case of Robert Roberson, a white male, they had to make this effort to shape the narrative
00:47:19.840 around him being autistic.
00:47:21.900 They claim that his being a member of this minority group is a fundamental reason he was treated
00:47:26.320 fairly, but just remember, he wasn't actually diagnosed with autism until 15 years later.
00:47:32.380 He had a history of violence that had no, there's no evidence that it had anything to do with
00:47:38.100 him being convicted.
00:47:39.560 So they've posted multiple headlines saying that women are more vulnerable to unfair convictions,
00:47:46.040 that LGBTQ people are more vulnerable to being convicted.
00:47:51.260 Disabled people, African-American people, Latinx people, autistic people.
00:47:57.700 The demographics of the Innocence Project's cases reflect this emphasis on minority status.
00:48:04.300 Black and Hispanic people represent 31% of the U.S. population, but 53% of death row inmates,
00:48:11.100 for example.
00:48:12.180 But the Innocence Project exonerations are nearly 75% Black and Hispanic.
00:48:18.000 Okay, so it's not just about the death penalty.
00:48:20.360 It's not just about exoneration.
00:48:22.520 This is extremely racialized.
00:48:24.880 This answers the question, why does the organization take on so many cases of people who are clearly
00:48:29.900 guilty?
00:48:30.440 It's because the innocence of the victim or of the purported victim of the charged criminal
00:48:35.800 is not as important of a criterion as there being a member of some kind of minority group.
00:48:43.980 Because the majority of the Innocence Project's cases are of racial minorities, playing the race card is a key part of this exoneration formula.
00:48:55.460 So here are the few things that the Innocence Project does.
00:48:58.200 One, it plays the race card.
00:49:00.620 So they'll say things like, this person was Black and he was convicted for murdering a white person.
00:49:07.420 And the majority of the jury was white.
00:49:10.160 And they don't even have to say there's evidence of racism.
00:49:13.380 All they have to do is say there was a Black person who was convicted of something.
00:49:17.780 There were white people on the other side.
00:49:19.600 It was in some kind of southern state like South Carolina.
00:49:22.980 And the assumption that people are going to take from that, because everyone's read To Kill a Mockingbird,
00:49:28.320 is that, oh, well, this person must have been wrongly convicted.
00:49:31.560 So if they can paint that narrative, which good propaganda doesn't have to answer questions about truth,
00:49:38.040 it just has to put assumptions in your mind and affirm the biases that you already have.
00:49:43.520 So that's what they did, for example, with Rodney Reed.
00:49:46.200 There was a campaign by the Innocence Project to say that Rodney Reed was framed for the killing of a white woman named Stacey Stites
00:49:54.340 by a white police officer who was also her fiancé, Jimmy Fennell.
00:50:00.980 That is what his defense argued at the time.
00:50:03.140 The Innocence Project ran with that.
00:50:05.220 He got Kim Kardashian, or the Innocence Project got Kim Kardashian, Rihanna, Beyonce, Susan Sarandon,
00:50:10.960 Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Phil, Sean King, many other very prominent people.
00:50:18.180 Sean King got three million signatures.
00:50:21.300 2020 made a documentary about this.
00:50:23.520 There was a whole media blitz saying that Rodney Reed was innocent,
00:50:27.740 that he was framed because of the color of his skin and the color of her skin, the victim.
00:50:33.400 But when you go through the court documents, when you go through the testimonies and the facts of the case,
00:50:39.500 it shows that Reed was almost certainly guilty.
00:50:43.660 He had actually already been proven guilty in another rape case.
00:50:49.000 There are so many different underlying factors here and facts that have been glossed over by the Innocence Project,
00:50:55.180 and we don't have time to go through and detail every single one of these cases,
00:50:59.860 but I encourage you to actually read the court cases themselves,
00:51:04.620 and we will link the source to these court cases so you can read them and look at the facts for yourself.
00:51:12.880 But this is another instance of someone who was almost certainly guilty being hoisted up by the media and by the Innocence Project.
00:51:22.240 The second thing that the Innocence Project does is leverages the court of public opinion.
00:51:28.380 While the Innocence Project does work in court, much of its strategy actually relies on public relations, on PR.
00:51:35.060 So their lawyers generally appeal to narrative appeal on narrow, often irrelevant points about forensic evidence.
00:51:44.040 Once they've reopened a case, they can construct a media narrative that generates public outcry.
00:51:49.160 The narrative is amplified by documentaries and by celebrities, even by legislators,
00:51:55.220 and this pushes the narrative that everyone knows that it's so obvious that this person is innocent.
00:52:02.300 Another case that proves this is Julius Jones, who was convicted of the 1999 murder of Paul Howell in front of his sister and daughters
00:52:14.080 as he pulled into his parents' driveway.
00:52:18.620 Friends Julius Jones and Christopher Jordan had been driving around looking for a car to steal,
00:52:23.700 and apparently Julius Jones exited the car wearing a red bandana, carrying a gun, and shot Howell in the head.
00:52:30.420 That is according to the Oklahoma district attorney who was involved in this case.
00:52:36.440 The Innocence Project, though, claims that Julius Jones was a victim of racism.
00:52:41.860 Viola Davis even hosted a documentary showing that this person, or trying to prove that this person was a victim of racism.
00:52:49.480 Steph Curry, Demi Lovato, again, Kim Kardashian came to his defense.
00:52:56.040 But there are massive problems with the Innocence Project's narrative about Julius Jones.
00:53:03.100 It is nonsensical to claim that racism motivated those involved in the case when the claim is that it was actually the other guy, not Julius Jones.
00:53:16.300 The Innocence Project is saying that it was his friend, Chris Jordan, that actually killed this person, not Julius Jones.
00:53:22.020 But Chris Jordan is also Black.
00:53:24.220 And so how could it be racism that motivated the conviction of Julius Jones?
00:53:28.580 The sister who witnessed the murder identified Jones with stunning accuracy, including the red bandana that he was wearing during the crime.
00:53:37.560 And when police searched Jones's room, they found that red bandana and they found the gun used to kill Howell.
00:53:45.740 Third, while it's true that the bandana wasn't tested for DNA at the time, it has been tested since.
00:53:50.740 And the results prove Jones's guilt.
00:53:53.600 So there was DNA evidence on the bandana that he was wearing when the person who witnessed the murder says that the person who killed Paul Howell was wearing a red bandana.
00:54:06.100 So this person is in all likelihood guilty.
00:54:10.060 And yet with this racial narrative, with generating public outcry, they have convinced many people that he was innocent.
00:54:16.580 They weaponized DNA testing.
00:54:18.460 This is another tactic.
00:54:19.560 Their most fundamental tactic is demanding new DNA testing on decades-old evidence.
00:54:26.480 They did this in the case of Marcellus Williams.
00:54:29.180 This is a prime example.
00:54:30.900 He is a Black man convicted of the 1998 murder of Felicia Gale, a white woman.
00:54:36.040 He reportedly entered her home, found a large butcher knife in the kitchen, stabbed her to death.
00:54:41.600 He then left taking some valuable items from the home.
00:54:44.980 But the narrative pushed by the Innocence Project is that Marcellus Williams couldn't possibly have killed Gale because new testing revealed his DNA wasn't on the murder weapon, but two other people's DNA was.
00:54:55.800 The truth is, however, that Williams was already known to be wearing gloves during the murder.
00:55:01.460 So it's no surprise that his DNA was not on the weapon.
00:55:04.600 And while it's true that they found two other individuals' DNA on the knife, it was the prosecutor and a detective who handled the weapon during the trial.
00:55:14.640 Not even during the case when they were looking at the evidence at the scene of the crime, but during the trial.
00:55:20.580 So all of those who work at the Innocence Project knows that this is bunk, knows that this is manipulation, and yet they push it anyway.
00:55:29.400 They also, this is their other tactic, they exploit the passage of time.
00:55:33.440 So they wait for decades after a case is passed, when tensions are a lot lower, when people feel less sad or less shocked by, less passionate about this particular victim's murder.
00:55:46.020 For example, when we're talking about Robert Robertson, they didn't push this right after this young child had been murdered because they knew that the sympathies, that the anger was so high and that people were more likely to think this guy was guilty.
00:56:01.920 And so they exploit the passage of time knowing that they will be more likely to convince people that the people on death row are innocent.
00:56:10.780 They did this with someone named Sean Thomas.
00:56:16.060 Sean Thomas was convicted in 1990 of murdering a 78-year-old man.
00:56:24.320 In 2017, 27 years after the crime, the Innocence Project successfully argued for Thomas' relief or release.
00:56:33.480 Prosecutors did not declare Thomas innocent, declined to retry him, though, likely because of public outcry.
00:56:41.020 Thomas walked free after serving 24 years in prison, was awarded a $4.1 million settlement.
00:56:49.460 And it's a little bit confusing, all of the technicalities that were exploited by the Innocence Project to try to say that he was innocent.
00:56:56.220 But then in 2023, he was headed back to prison for murdering a man over $1,200.
00:57:01.400 Okay, so the guy spent almost 30 years in prison, convicted for this murder.
00:57:07.780 Innocence Project said, no, he is totally innocent, probably pushed some kind of racial bias narrative.
00:57:13.460 And then in 2023, he murdered a man and went to prison.
00:57:18.180 Will the Innocence Project say that he is innocent now?
00:57:21.120 Not sure.
00:57:22.240 And then they also will manufacture new evidence.
00:57:26.780 This is what the Innocence Project does.
00:57:28.740 In extreme cases, these convicts have been exonerated using falsified evidence created by activist attorneys.
00:57:37.080 An example of this is Maurice Caldwell.
00:57:40.200 The exoneration of Maurice Caldwell, he was convicted of murder in 1991.
00:57:46.900 He was released after Paige Kanab, a lawyer from the Innocence Project, obtained a confession from Marit Funchez,
00:57:54.420 his friend, Funchez, who was already serving a life sentence without parole for another murder,
00:57:59.080 took the blame for the killing and identified someone else as his accomplice.
00:58:03.420 Caldwell won $8 million in a settlement from the city.
00:58:07.920 Funchez wanted his family to get part of that money.
00:58:10.280 When that didn't happen, he came forward and exposed, accused Attorney Paige Kanab of enticing him into providing a false confession.
00:58:18.420 Kanab made contact with Funchez, texting him almost every day for a year and messaging him almost 9,000 times.
00:58:23.540 She sent him, reportedly, racy photos, sexts, so sext, text messages, money, and various gifts to lure him into giving a false confession.
00:58:35.080 Although the Northern California Innocence Project has stood by Caldwell's exoneration,
00:58:40.040 since these damning revelations, Kanab is no longer with their organization.
00:58:46.800 So those are the tactics of the Innocence Project.
00:58:49.000 They will sometimes manufacture new evidence.
00:58:51.960 They will exploit the passage of time.
00:58:54.180 They will weaponize DNA testing.
00:58:56.840 They will leverage the court of public opinion.
00:58:59.600 And they will play the race card.
00:59:01.760 Now, that is not the definition of justice.
00:59:04.260 This is a project that has nothing to do with justice.
00:59:06.880 It has nothing to do with innocence.
00:59:08.440 And if your representative, if your friend, if the elected officials, if even some of the people that Trump has appointed,
00:59:17.280 if they are partnering with or offering validity to the Innocence Project in any way,
00:59:23.200 then you need to call them and you need to hold them accountable.
00:59:26.620 It is one thing for someone in charge to think someone is truly innocent and try to get them exonerated
00:59:33.800 and try to ensure that they don't meet a fate that they don't actually deserve to meet,
00:59:40.100 but they don't need to partner with the Innocence Project, who is actually perverting justice.
00:59:46.460 It is no small thing.
00:59:48.340 Let me tell you this.
00:59:49.520 It is no small thing to inhibit justice for the murder of a child.
00:59:57.580 God does not take that lightly.
00:59:59.880 If you are someone who is just against the death penalty, just say that you're against the death penalty.
01:00:04.660 Say that you're against the death penalty for pedophile murders.
01:00:07.960 Just come out and say that.
01:00:09.860 Don't lie and say that this person is innocent based on a false narrative and based on distorted and ignored facts.
01:00:19.280 Don't do that.
01:00:20.640 Just say that you're against execution altogether,
01:00:23.360 but you manipulating the public to stay the execution of someone whom God's word says deserves to be executed.
01:00:32.460 Because in Genesis 9, 6, we read before the establishment of Israel,
01:00:36.480 before the creation of the law,
01:00:38.340 but something that is actually rooted in the Imago Dei,
01:00:42.420 that execution is the just punishment for murder.
01:00:46.720 And it still is the just punishment for murder.
01:00:50.260 So if you are against that, if you are against God's justice, then just be honest about it.
01:00:55.300 But don't lie about who these criminals actually are.
01:00:58.840 It is no small thing in the eyes of God to deter justice in that way.
01:01:04.180 Remember that.
01:01:05.580 If you don't care about being held accountable by us,
01:01:08.560 if you don't care about being held accountable by voters,
01:01:12.020 know that you will be held accountable by God.
01:01:13.960 Now, realize that this is a big freaking deal.
01:01:18.320 You do not need to be supporting or hoisting up or celebrating
01:01:22.180 or associating yourself with the Innocence Project ever.
01:01:26.000 And if you are a voter and you have seen that from your representative,
01:01:29.740 from elected officials, then you need to call them.
01:01:33.160 And you need to let them know that you take issue with this
01:01:36.080 as someone who cares about true compassion and true justice.
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01:03:13.440 The Innocence Project presents itself as this champion of justice,
01:03:17.380 but its track record reveals a totally different reality.
01:03:22.080 They don't prioritize truth.
01:03:23.620 They strategically manipulate public perception.
01:03:26.180 They exploit racial and social justice narratives.
01:03:28.660 And they push a left-wing anti-justice agenda.
01:03:33.460 This is, as we've said, a textbook example of toxic empathy, a well-intentioned, sometimes
01:03:38.340 impulse that, when weaponized, leads to devastating consequences.
01:03:42.800 But by redirecting our empathy, our compassion away from true victims toward convicted criminals,
01:03:50.120 the Innocence Project distorts justice and creates a culture where accountability is eroded
01:03:55.120 in favor of emotional activism and virtue signaling.
01:03:58.560 And so we have people who are very likely monsters, like Robert Roberson, being praised as a martyr,
01:04:05.400 while victims like Nikki Curtis are completely forgotten and neglected, and justice is never one for her.
01:04:14.160 That is not right.
01:04:15.640 That is a disordered view of justice, and Christians should stand against it.
01:04:20.240 And I've had conversations about these cases in the past where child abusers are let off death row
01:04:29.200 because of the false narratives of the Innocence Project, and I can really think of few things more wicked than that.
01:04:34.900 When the Innocence Project succeeds in exonerating its clients, murderers, rapists, and career criminals walk free, often re-offending.
01:04:45.140 There are real victims.
01:04:47.040 There is a cost to toxic empathy.
01:04:51.100 There is a cost to this injustice.
01:04:54.540 In the end, the Innocence Project's goal is not the exoneration of the wrongly convicted,
01:04:58.580 but a broader effort to delegitimize law enforcement, weaken the justice system,
01:05:03.520 and ultimately push for the abolition of the death penalty, regardless of guilt,
01:05:07.880 regardless of how heinous of a crime has been committed.
01:05:11.660 So it's not just justice that they seek, but a political victory,
01:05:15.200 gained at the cost of truth, at the cost of lies, the safety of our communities,
01:05:20.920 and at the expense of those who are truly innocent.
01:05:25.040 So there should be no support of this organization,
01:05:29.520 and we should do everything we can to champion true justice.
01:05:32.840 And the next time you hear a narrative of someone who is innocent on death row,
01:05:36.920 before you buy into the documentary, before you buy into the media blitz
01:05:41.100 and the celebrity campaign strategy, make sure you know what is actually true.
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01:07:00.060 All right.
01:07:00.600 That's all we've got time for today.
01:07:02.040 We'll be back here tomorrow.
01:07:07.000 We'll be back here tomorrow.